The body-mind experiences of eight midlife women elicited through the holistic practice of Neuromuscular Integrative Action (NIA)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explored the body-mind experiences of eight midlife women who had integrated the movement of NIA (Neuromuscular Integrative Action) into their lives. NIA is a holistic fitness programme that combines the physicality of movement with an inner focus of awareness that is ever-present, self-monitoring, and nonjudgmental. A hermeneutic phenomenological methodology guided the research and conversational interviews were used to retrieve a narrative view of experience. The findings focus on the women's descriptions and explanations of the reflexive nature of NIA, which support interpretations of its possible uses within psychotherapy. Due to a reflexive cycle present in the practice itself and a feedback process that occurred during the study, understanding of NIA's overall effects on the participants’ lives were revealed as discovering the wisdom of the body and becoming aware of the body's movement. The practice of NIA offers midlife women an opportunity to reconstruct notions of the self and to give voice to reflective interpretations that could result in deeper self-discovery and healing.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".